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Disclaimer: This historic film was produced during the apartheid era in South Africa. It contains propaganda elements that explicitly or tacitly endorse racism and racial separation. It is presented solely for historical purposes, to help document in part a period of terrible repression.
This 1960s/1970s promo film "Golden Transvaal" was directed and produced by John Da Silva. It promotes South Africa and its national parks. It dates to the apartheid era. Film opens with a South African Airways jet plane, a Boeing 707, landing on tarmac. Main title: "South African Tourist Corporation Presents...Golden Transvaal." Planes taxi on tarmac (0:37). Passengers exit planes. “Jan Smuts Airport” from outside (now Tambo Airport, 0:36). Various shots of planes on tarmac during opening credits, Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. Air Madagascar (1:02). KLM, TAP, Pan Am, El Al airline logos visible. Airline employees in action, unloading luggage, seeing off passengers (flight attendants). A bus (1:30). Miner's Monument statue, zoom out to city (aerial). Aerial shots of city. A woman walks down city street full of skyscrapers (2:00). Woman walks in building with courtyard and fountain (2:07). Fountain in urban park. Large fountain sprays (2:24). Man rows boat with children. Flamingos in water (2:30). Sign for Lion Park, Johannesburg (2:34). A white man wearing safari hat lifts lion cub. Young woman cuddles lion cub. Car slowly passes lion herd (2:47). Sunset over highway (2:56). Neon sign montage: Rand International, Springbok Hotel, Waldorf, Regent (3:01-3:10). Closeup of drummer in a club. Woman in short dress dances in psychedelic room; others dance, too. A ballet / theatrical scene (3:18). Formal dinner setting in a restaurant (feast), couples and waitstaff visible, cutting meat (3:23). Black South African dancers in special attire (feathers on shoulders) enter clearing, surrounded by audience, including white tourists. Closeup shots of dancing (3:29-3:54). An explosion underground (3:54): entrance of industrial mine shaft. Black miners shown digging / drilling in harsh underground conditions. Molten gold descends engineered rig. Man places gold brick on stack; many stacks of gold bricks in geometric formation; a room full of gold; ship and piano made of gold (4:40). Race cars rev amid crowds, lining up on track for South African Grand Prix (4:57). Flag wave starts race; crowds observe (5:12). A car spins off track (5:19). Men at sides timing laps; a man holds up written sign to passing cars (5:32). Women lounge in swimwear on boat in harbor (5:35). Many men are sailing sailboats (5:49). A man in red jumping a horse at a horse show (6:00). Cricket players run, throw, hit; crowds watch; teammates cheer. Cricket players in green run across field (6:12–6:34). Women march in parade with drumline. Men in suits in massive masks. Mansions / designer architecture houses shown (6:49). Panning, faraway shot of city, with gardens and statues foregrounded (7:04). Statue of Paul Kruger (Church Square park). A herd of cows and cowherd (7:32). Oranges / fruit in industrial processing / machine line (7:44). Black South Africans by a painted gate. Handicraft shop display. White women twirl in beaded outfits (headbands / head ornaments, etc.). Stalactites in cave, family walking with guide. Rock formations (8:32). Hiker; woman in bellbottoms looks through binoculars (8:49). Waterfall amidst cliffs (9:10). Visitors cross bridge over rocky outcrop, bubbling pool (9:19). A baobab tree without leaves (9:30). Cars / camper on highway drive through various tunnels and rocky landscape (vantage point: both inside / outside vehicle) (9:38–10:17). Kruger National Park, Hek Phalaborwa Gate. Park rangers with rifles salute tourist vehicle (10:23). Herd of giraffes running (10:29). Bungalows in savannah area (aerial view) (10:36). Elephant with baby joins elephant herd (10:30). Hippo herd in water, baby hippo (10:53). A bird floats on water. Bird flies away from crocodile (11:07). Birds on shore (11:18). Waterbuck in field (11:24). People in car on safari (11:27). Elephant and rhino. Woman with short hair peers from car (11:51). Closeup of rhinos together (12:04). Game Parks / Molo Molo Game Reserve. Waiter serves white couple on terrace. Safari vehicle approaches giraffe, a man photographs. Closeup (12:12). Cheetahs peering through tall grass (12:28). Gazelles gather in grass. Cheetah kills and eats gazelle (12:40). Safari car approaches cheetah. Vultures fly from trees (13:04). SATOUR logo (13:25).
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